here's goodly gear a large clothes horse, refers to the appearance of the Nurse, who is also described in this scene as a sail. Romeo also continues Mercutio's series of bawdy puns in this scene, as gear refers to the reproductive organs.

he's a man of wax he's perfect, without fault, like a wax figure.

hilding a low, contemptible person.

holy palmers' kiss a palmer is a pilgrim who carried a palm leaf to signify the making of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. For Romeo, love is likened to a religious quest.

holy physic spiritual remedy.

hoodwink'd blindfolded.

humour fluid.

hunt's-up morning song used to wake huntsmen and, more traditionally, a newly married bride.

hurdle a kind of frame or sled on which prisoners in England were drawn through the streets to execution.

huswife a housewife.

I am no pilot . . . should adventure for such merchandise Romeo describes himself as a merchant venturer, one who would make risky voyages to be with Juliet.

I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to them if they bear it an Italian insult, a provocative, probably obscene gesture.

I'll cry a match I'll claim the victory.

I'll try . . . fingers from the saying that only bad cooks will not be able to lick their own fingers; that is, the servants will see if they are willing to test their own cooking.

an ill-beseeming semblance an unfitting or inappropriate outward appearance or aspect.

immortal punning on the moves as both famous and fatal.

in proof when actually experienced.

in this love in your concern for her material and earthly well-being.

intercession prayers and petitions.

jaunce trudge up and down.

jealous hood jealous wife. Capulet is humorously responding to his wife's remarks about his past.

jealous suspicious.

Jove king of the Roman gods.

keepers guards, as of prisoners.

kill your joys kill your children and turn your joy to sorrow.

laid wormwood to my dug rubbed wormwood on my nipple: a method of weaning children. The Nurse's role when Juliet was a young child was to act as her wet-nurse and breast-feed Juliet.

Lammas-tide a harvest festival formerly held in England on Aug. 1, when bread baked from the first crop of wheat was consecrated at Mass. The festival is used to symbolize fertility and plentitude, qualities which can be linked to Juliet as a young adolescent.

lantern an open or windowed structure on the roof of a building or in the upper part of a tower or the like, to admit light or air.

lay knife aboard lay claim to.

lesser cause that is, a woman, an amorous liaison.

let mischance be slave to patience submit to these unfortunate events with patience.

lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts Romeo is almost walking on air.

light'ning before death! Romeo refers to the belief that on the point of death the spirits were supposed to revive.